Printing-press-heater support



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March 17. 1925. 1,529,880

J. E. DOYLE PR'INTING PRESS HEATER SUPPORT 7 Filed March 20, 1920 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 57. 1925.

J. E. DOYLE PRINTING PliESS HEATER SUPPORT Filed March 20 1920 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 1 2 1 a 4/? m 1 g w 19m m, V 5 m JAM/5 00/45 Patented Mar. 17, 1925,

' rszasse JAMES E. DOYLE, or CLEVELAND, 0I-IIO.

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Application filed March 20,1920. Serial No. 367,450.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Janus E. Dorm,

a citizen of the United States, residing at 5718 iVhittier Ave, in the city of Cleve land, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Im provenient in Printing-Press-I-Ieater Supports, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained, and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

lily invention pertains to a printing press heater support and more particularly a sup port having an electrical heater designed to present an incandescent resistance unit to ward the path of movement of a freshly printed sheet of paper over the printing press.

According to the exempliiication of the drawings, the support is adapted for use in conjunction with what has come to be well known as the Miller feed appliedto a Gordon type of press wherein one of two relatively movable frame members carries a chase upon which the typed form is mount ed and the other frame member or support carries a platen adapted to swing toward and away from the typed form. During the act on of the illustrated parts, a sheet of paper after receiving an inked impression is taken hold of by suitable gripping fingers and drawn over and across the incandescent heating surface so that it is thoroughly dried and static electricity removed.

Advertjing to the drawings Figure I is mainly a side elevation of the upper part of a Gordon press showing the platen carrying rocker in one position of its movement toward and away from the typed form over which inking rolls periodically pass, and also showing an electrical heater in section mounted thereon after the manner of my invention. This figure further shows the printed paper sheet engaged by a gripping device and about to be with drawn.

Figure II is a View corresponding to Figure I, with certain parts appearing in section showing a subsequent relation of the parts and specifically while the printed paper sheet is being drawn over the heater preparatory to being released and deposited.

FigureIIIis a of Figure II.

Figure IV is a broken section on line IVIV of Figure I.

Figure V is a vertical section VV of Figure III. 7

A frame member 1 carries a type-form 2 and in a position .angularly related thereto also carries an inking disk 3. Distributor rolls 4- are adapted to roll over the disk 3 and the type-form 2 for the purpose of conveying ink from the former to the latter. Theoperation of a Gordon'type of press being so old and well known in the art need on line plan View on line IIIIII not be enlarged upon, especially since the claims will not be restricted to combinations of standard parts of the press.

A support 5relative to which the frame member 1 is adapted to swing carries a platen 6 with which thetype-formQ. is adapted to come into engagement. Itis upon the platen-6 that sheets of paper P to be printed are laid and held by gripping lingers 7. The latter are adapted intermittently to be raised'so as to permitlthe insertion or withdrawal of the sheet during such time when the type-form 2 and platen 6 are not in engagement. Carried bythe support 5 is a movable, arm 8 from which gripping fingers 9 depend. These fingers being likewise subject to automatic actuation and adapted to engage the upper end of the printed sheets so as to withdraw them from the, plate and deposit them upon a table 10 provided with an adjustable ledge 11 carried by a bar 11 having limited movement in a channel 11 formed in the top of the table 10. Inasmuch as the action of the fingers 9 is also common knowledge in the art, it need be onlyv added that the gripping engagementof the fingers 9 with the edges of paper is automatically released whenever they reach the position shown in full lines in Figure II. Adjustably secured in suitable slots 12 in the ledge 11 by means of cap screws 12 is a bracket 13 to which my incandescent heating unit 1a is detachably connected.

Inasmuch as the electric heating unit 14 is flexibly conn cted by means of a cord 15 with a source of current, its adjustment toward and away from the shelf 10 is perit mitted. 7 As will be readily understood such adjustment determines the proximity of the printed sheet to the source oil? heat.

1. 'A' device of the character described comprising a pairof members one of which is adapted to swing bodily relatively to the other, a part adjustably mounted upon One v said prescribedpath.

below the path "sheet.

of said members, a'heater adjustably carried by said part, and means carried by the other member adapted to draw a sheetover said heater.- v

.2. A device of the character described comprising a 'pair of members one of which is adapted to swing relative to the other,

means carried bysai'd swingable' member adapted to draw a sheet along a prescribed.

path and-a heater "adjustably supported by one of said members and'adapted for adjustment movement toward and away from 3. A device of the character described comprising a sheet depositing table, a platen movablerelatively thereto, a sheetgripping device adapted to swing relatively thereto and adapted to transfer sheets from the lat ter to the former,-and a heater adjustably carried by one of said first mentioned pair of elements in a position below the path of transfer movement of said sheet. t

I 4:. A device of the character described comprising asheet depositing table,f a platen 'movable relatively thereto, a sheet gripping device also movable relatively thereto and adapted to transfer sheets from one to the other, and an incandescent heat unit adjustably'at-tached to said table in a position of transfer movement of said 5. A device of the character described comprising a sheet depositing table, a platen movable relatively thereto, a sheet gripping device also movable relatively thereto and adapted to transfer sheets from one to the other, and an incandescent heat unit attached a to said table in a position beloW- the path of transfer movement of said sheet, and

means for eifecting an adjustment of said unit in two distinct directions 6. A device of the character describedcomprising a pair of members one of which I is adapted to swing relative to the other,

an incandescent electric heater supported by one or saidnren'ibers, and means carried by the othermemberadapted to describe a path over said heater and to draw a sheet along With it.

7. A device of the character described comprising a sheet depositing-table, a platen mounted to swing relatively thereto, a sheet gripping device movable across said platen and in timed relation to the movement of the latter, said devieebeiing adapted to transfer sheets from one .to the other, and a heat unit mounted in proximity to the path of. transfer movement of said sheet.

'8. Av'printing press-heater support comprising the combination of a table, a ledge adjustably connected with said table for movement along the latter, and a heater ad'- ustably connected with said ledge for movement toward and away from saidtable.

9. A printing press heater support com-.

prising the combination of a table provided with'a channel, a bar slidable in said channel and carrying an upstanding ledge fashioned with a slot, and a heater adjustably mounted for movement in said slot.

10'. A printing press heater support comprising the combination-pf a table and adapted for reciprocal movement inv one JAMES DOYLE, 

